Quotes About Speed

The spirit of adventure sped through his soul on mighty wings.

The hoverlanes were murder.

You're like a monkey," Swordtail panted, catching up to her when she stopped to wait for them. "I mean — in a good way — like a — very fast — jumps — good jumps — not foodishly — I mean, not in a dinner way — just, so fast." He wheezed to a stop.

So Turtle had enchanted a strand of purple kelp, wound three times around his upper arm, to make him just a bit faster than some of his brothers.

Quick's the word and sharp's the action.

The problem with working slowly is not just that technical innovation happens slowly. It's that it tends not to happen at all. It's only when you're deliberately looking for hard problems, as a way to use speed to the greatest advantage, that you take on this kind of project. Developing new technology is a pain in the ass. It is, as Edison said, one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Without the incentive of wealth, no one wants to do it.

It was not the largest genocide in the history of the world, but it was the fastest and most efficient.

The only sound was birdsong, soon overwhelmed by the headlong buzz of two Border Patrol officers on all-terrain vehicles, zipping past me much too fast on the flat paths, their big wheels tossing up damp sand.

I was shown each second passing as the train belted along, ticking off the buildings with a speed that made me melancholy.

I hate being read to. I hate the pauses. I hate the stammers and mispronunciations. Most of all I hate the slowness of it. I can read quickly and efficiently, and cannot stand someone taking charge and denying me the pleasure of reading the damned thing myself.

Herein, I think, is the chief attraction of railway travel. The speed is so easy, and the train disturbs so little the scenes through which it takes us, that our heart becomes full of the placidity and stillness of the country; and while the body is being borne forward in the flying chain of carriages, the thoughts alight, as the humour moves them, at unfrequented stations

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

Cars frighten me. They look vicious. Growling, screeching, fast-moving assassins. -Bec

Vampires can run at an extra-fast speed, a magic kind of running, where they slip through space like eels through a net. They call it "flitting.")

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.